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As we celebrate Earth Day 2026, what is the technical community—the people who actually build and operate the Internet—doing about climate concerns and environmental sustainability?

Today I wrote on the @internetsociety blog about two groups working within the Internet Engineering Task Force ( #IETF ) and the Internet Research Task Force ( #IRTF ) to look at some of these topics...
https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2026/04/climate-and-environmental-sustainability-within-the-ietf-and-irtf/

#EarthDay #EarthDay2026 #Climate #ClimateChange #Sustainability

what are these guys smoking?

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/cfrg/arwZRrgGid3AaMgTUNbGXJLJk_8/

context:
https://github.com/cfrg/draft-irtf-cfrg-concrete-hybrid-kems/pull/28

#irtf #standards #cfrg #postquantum

3 week RGLC on draft-irtf-cfrg-opaque-13 has started!

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/cfrg/Bt4h2hQYajFkLZeWXhi5Sb4hgYA/

*daumendrück*

#opaque #crypto #cfrg #irtf

woohooo good news! thanks to the awesome @joostvb and some help from @NGIZero libopaque is about to be included in #debian (and all dowstream distros, like #ubuntu, #raspian, #devuan and #kali https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/libopaque_0.99.2-1.html

it only has to pass the ftp NEW queue manual review.

#crypto #opaque #linux #cfrg #irtf

interesting review of the current OPAQUE draft of the IRTF/CFRG:

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/cfrg/Bwo7jab6ifEG7a9KiDkXhayFgkk/

it rattles on some of the security promises of the original protocol that are not quite proven for the current draft. #crypto #opaque #irtf #cfrg